One of Turkey's largest trading partners is now the Kurdish Autonomous Region in the north of Iraq.
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The sect is due to vote later alongside other Kurds outside the Kurdish autonomous region in a referendum on joining the grouping.
It is the first time Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region has officially exported oil out of the country.
The total does not include those killed in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, which keeps its own death toll.
Kirkuk would be highly desirable for Kurds who wanted to include it into the autonomous Kurdish region in the north.
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) At an elite private school in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, children learn Turkish and English before Arabic.
Climbing Halgurd can be done in a long day trip from Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.
It accuses the PKK of launching attacks on Turkish targets from secret bases in the mountainous and semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Mr Talabani's illness comes at a time of heightened political tensions between Iraq's Arab-led central government and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north.
Mr Hashemi is the most senior Sunni politician in the government, but fled to the autonomous Kurdish region after being accused of terrorism last year.
On the last of their four-day visit, half the delegation will visit Erbil in the autonomous Kurdish region in the north, while the other half will fly to the southern city of Basra.
Iraq's largely autonomous northern Kurdish region, which comprises three provinces, will hold its own local elections in September.
Yet in the meantime, the Kurdish president - now, there is a president of Kurdistan as this semi-autonomous region - the Kurdish president and prime minister have said that they actually have the right to begin exploring oil in Kirkuk even before the referendum.
Ms. MARCUS: No, the Kurdish government in Northern Iraq, which runs the autonomous Kurdistan region, is very much opposed to the PKK's presence on its territory.
Many Shiites want a similar autonomous region in southern Iraq, where they are the vast majority, and they have supported Kurdish autonomy.
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